Timeout (30000 milliseconds) waiting for the Backup Exec Remote Agent for Windows Systems service to connect.

This problem surfaced out of nowhere.

Any  ideas?

We noticed this turning up randomly on our Win2000 servers too.  All of them run under VMWare ESX 3.5 U3.  It's about 50/50--some of them don't automatically start out of a reboot (timeout 30000 milliseconds), but does when manually started after the VM guest is booted.

50/50 is 4 of our 8 servers  that are running Win2000 Server, so I wouldn't call it isolated to one machine being "different" than the rest.

hello there i having the same problem i have tryed every thing but no luck the service just wont start automatically
any other idead on that we can do

after 3 days strugle with this issue i start running a series of test on my network

1.everything up all pc  on - agent shuts down and fail to start
2. i tell all my users to turn off all the pc's -- agent shuts down and fail tyo start

then i start to read all this threat all over again and the reports when talking with another consultant we hit what we ting is what is cusing this problem
every time the agent shutsdown  was betwen 12:46 am  all the time then we deside to cut  the internet feed and leave the system running only our 5 servers alone from the nternet and all the pc shutsdown

the agent didn't shuts down this time   that lead us to this  conclusion there have to be somewhere hidden on one of my servers or pc a spyware or bot trying to open a door to the out side this causing the time outs on the NIC and shuting down the agent .  bad thing is we are somwwhat disapointed becouse we have the latest version of norton end point  instaaled on the server and the pc's and he didn't detect anything.

i will still looking for what is causing this and come back with a proper solution